RE: Doc.ID 756671.1 Oracle Recommended Patches
- From: "Matthew Zito" <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dackoc@xxxxxxxxx>, <Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:31:23 -0400
So, we have one customer that is aggressively applying these recommended
patch bundles, and have not reported any issues.
Most of our other customers would not apply any patches at all, except
for the fact that their security and/or compliance people have come down
on them that "Thou must apply X critical patch updates per year".
I'm in favor of the, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of
thought, but it seems like it's just not going to be viable forever.
Thanks,
Matt
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carol Dacko
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To: Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx
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Subject: Re: Doc.ID 756671.1 Oracle Recommended Patches
Laimutis,
Patch bundles should be the way to go. Thanks for pointing this out to
us!
When we go up a 10.2.0.x release, we always apply any one-off patches
that we believe we will encounter. This helps to prevent doing the one
patch at a time dance.
This is definitely a path that I will recommend we do here in our
department at the University of Michigan.
Thanks again!
Carol
2009/4/21 <Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx>
Is anyone patching database according to this:
"
Subject: Oracle Recommended Patches -- Oracle Database Doc ID:
756671.1
Type: ANNOUNCEMENT Modified Date : 15-APR-2009 Status: PUBLISHED
Beginning with release 10.2.0.3, Oracle releases Recommended Patches for
Oracle Database. For an introduction to Recommended Patches, see Note
756388.1.
"
Any positive experiences ?
Because I am working on a new project (some projects are still not
canceled
in these times) I am wondering about apply-all-recommended-patches
approach.
It looks tempting to get rid of most of nasty bugs that manage to
surface
anyway.
Especially that we are beeing forced to use Oracle Streams which are
somewhat outstanding with regard to Oracle recommended minimal patch
list.
Oracle Physical Standby (aka Data Guard) is on the list too.
Normally we go the way "wait until problem happens"(aka if it ain't
broke
don't fix it) and then try find workarround or patch but we have already
encountered some bugs that could have been fixed by applying recommended
patch bundles. Since it is a new project it looks to be an option.
What the others say about all those recommended patch bundles?
Thank you in advance,
Laimis N.
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